[Buildroot] [PATCH] support: properly check for bash as a dependency

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:55:18 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> > I'm definitely against that. My system has /bin/sh pointing to dash,
> > and Buildroot works fine. One of the thing that annoyed me in
> > OpenEmbedded was its requirements to have /bin/sh be bash.
> > 
> > We clearly don't want that.
> 
> I'm just fine with that. :-)
> 
> But the current check is broken anyway, as all it checks is that the
> login shell of the user is bash.
> 
>   - if we want to work whith dash as the system shell, then the current
>     check is unneeded;
> 
>   - if we want to work with dash as the system shell, we don't care what
>     login shell the user is using, as we must also work when this is dash;
> 
>   - SHELL is not mandated by POSIX, so it may be empty on a
>     POSIX-compliant shell anyway.
> 
> So, we should just remove this check altogether.

Yes, I agree.

Thomas
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